Women please vote

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I'm aware of that Dana. I'm also aware of the psychology behind why people do it, however, all those other aspects affect almost every one of us and so we have a base understanding and therefor can relate to the joke - maybe see the funny side of it. On the other hand, I think rape is something different and it will never be funny in any way to me.

Surely other people can see why that would be? Surely other victims understand why it's different to the other things mentioned as comparable?

No! No it isn't different. You only think it's different because it happened to you.
If I go out with a friend and the end of the night he beats me senseless, that's not as serious, not as traumatic, not as damaging, as you being raped?
What about people who were kidnapped?
How about POWs?
What about people who suffer discrimination/racism, every damn day of their life?

A lot of people suffer heinous crimes that are hard for others to contemplate how they survived no less came to terms with it.
Most likely, any joke or even mention, of anything serious will trigger bad memories for someone.
That's why their can't be any subject that's taboo for humor.....or there would be no humor.

I'm sorry you've had a traumatic experience, but I'm ever more sorry you haven't been able to deal with it. I'm convinced you haven't by your suggestion that anyone joking about rape is an insensitive ass.